I was finishing my biggest project yet that I worked on for 2 weeks and.... my computer powerplug screwed up and my system shut off. I havn't done any recovery or back ups and the class I was working on completely disapeared. It was as if the text was invisible, because I can highlight it. I was going to release it as a WIP today too D: . Deep down Inside I know I put in a LOT of work but for some reason... I'm relieved. I'm so speachless.... is there any way I can revive it? I checked my workspace. (Does the fact that I'm using windows 8 help me?)

I think the workspace was reset, its still there. Try using eclipse's file-import-project then the directory of the project. That or create a file with the exact name as the other one, it should take place of the the old one.

I think the workspace was reset, its still there. Try using eclipse's file-import-project then the directory of the project. That or create a file with the exact name as the other one, it should take place of the the old one.

You can also set up a automatic system that backs up certain folders at certain times, e.g. "Documents" "every 3 hours."Version control is still good for code specifically, though, it has other benefits, like being able to easily reverse changes, etc.

Its impossible to not save the file in 2 weeks, unless he never ran the program 1 time in those 2 weeks. The code must be saved for it to be compiled. If he didn't save it 1 time, that means he didn't run it even once.

Try opening source code from My Computer (Ow wow I don't know how the things where you browse folders in Windows). I think something like this happened to me once on my shitty laptop which would turn off randomly sometimes. My file was empty, but in folder explorer the file was like it was before.

No - the file just got corrupted. I have the same problem with my work PC. I get a blue screen on it from time to time and then every open file is filled with binary nulls...Unfortunately this also happens to my locally cloned git repo - So any non-pushed changes are also lost

I was going to release it as a WIP today too D: . Deep down Inside I know I put in a LOT of work but for some reason...

Get over with. This might actually not be that bad at all. Redoing something that you already did just helps you practice and usually results in cleaner code anyway. So see this as an oportunity and not as a problem.

Back in the days when I started programming I always started from scratch and so basically memorized all the 68k assemly code you need to write an Atari ST overscan demo with side scrolling text and raster interrupt colorizing without even looking up interrupts, adresses or clock cycles.

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